Introduction
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This introduction outlines how the idea of a national economy subject to governmental management was constructed in Britain out of the dissolution of the unmanaged economy of the pre-1914 era. It argues that a key turning point came in 1931 with the departure from the gold standard and the introduction of protection. But, it is argued, it was only from the 1940s that national economic management was combined with ‘managing the people’, through major efforts to shape public opinion on the economy. This chapter also summarizes the development of the major kinds of economic statistics which underpinned both facets of economic management.
2014 ◽
Vol 682
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pp. 550-554
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2021 ◽
Vol 4
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pp. 242
2020 ◽
Vol 8
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pp. 202-214
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1940 ◽
Vol 34
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pp. 481-488
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